The Cosmic Computer ♦ By H. Beam Piper ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

[@chipslatersstorytimetheate62]

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[@otterrivers3765]

I haven't listened to sci Fi audiobooks in a while. You probably missed me right? 😇

[@lourias]

It would sure be nice to know who narrates the audiobook. This guy is great, but others are so dog-gone slow!!! Sure, I could speed the playback, but that does not cancel the monotoneness.

[@denvan3143]

I read _The Cosmic Computer_ under its other title, _Junkyard Planet_ some years after its original publication. I thought when Star Wars came out George Lucas should have optioned the book and made it into a movie; the story of treasure hunters, antigravity barges, robots and spaceships would have fit neatly into Lucas‘s science fiction vision. And Lucas‘s Ewoks are suspiciously similar to the Fuzzies in H Beam Piper’s other sci-fi novels.

[@otterrivers3765]

I just realized how cool it is that he was a science fiction writer with the word "Beam" in his name!!!

[@chipslatersstorytimetheate62]

There is debate over whether his 1st name was Henry or Horace.

[@andrewcox6980]

The man apparently had one hell of a firearms collection. In fact, it was the end of him, quite literally.

[@brendan9833]

@@chipslatersstorytimetheate62 His name was Horace, but he didn't like it, and told people that the "H" stood for Henry.

[@fredkelly6953]

What madness is this? A future where cigarettes are a social norm? Take me there.

[@chipslatersstorytimetheate62]

Haha! That was the generation I grew up in LOL.

[@chrisweidner4768]

Thank you for all you bring to us.

[@chipslatersstorytimetheate62]

You are welcome, Chris!

[@ocpunk4024]

This one seems fun

[@chipslatersstorytimetheate62]

You are welcome!

[@otterrivers3765]

Better than Saturday splatterday.

[@silverbackseven7]

Very excellent. I enjoyed this thoroughly.

[@dennisacklin3301]

When was it written?

[@silverbackseven7]

Dennis Acklin according to Wikipedia it was originally published as a short story in 1958 and then as a novel in 1963. It has a lot of those old timey qualities you’d associate with 50s-60s sci-fi.

[@cody481]

Good story and good reader.

[@chipslatersstorytimetheate62]

Enjoy!

[@Eris123451]

Really good.

[@mosart7025]

Which was written first, Asimov's Foundation, or this?

[@mosart7025]

I just researched Piper a bit. Found this in Wikipidia, "Piper's future history resembles in some ways Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, and was probably influenced by it, especially since both authors wrote for John W. Campbell. Also I saw that he worked in the railroad yards at Altoona, Pennsylvania. My grandfather worked there! I wonder if they knew each other?

[@Robert-zv7ry]

I agree alot of the space pioneer stories or just rehash of the western pioneer stories. With spaceship substituted for wagon trains

[@JFrazer4303]

The next chronological story Space Viking kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGbLmnefnrqqlcU 1000 years later. Planets colonized by remnants of the System States Alliance called the Sword Worlds, making a living raiding worlds in the fallen old Federation. And then "Ministry of Disturbance", several centuries later. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKPRkopvr76Ap7s It's been noted that in Space Viking, there's no mention of Poictesme as one of the worlds that had survived the fall of the Federation and maintained civilization. It's also been note that in the time of the Empire later, Tanith of "Space Viking" is not mentioned as a nexus of civilization starting up. Reading Piper's stories ruined me for RPGs. Everyone else goes hunting monsters and collecting treasure. I use the treasure to build infrastructure and roads & bridges to build up civilizations. There's plenty of monster fighting involved in securing passages for merchant traffic and opening mines and building housing for workers and such Game designers have to change gears from the usual direction of games.

[@John-100]

Good story, this is the social template all scifi authors should apply to their story lines. Indeed this book is old, but still refreshing to not have feminism thrown in the face at every turn.

[@locutusdborg126]

Women are equal men in this century, like it or not.

[@otterrivers3765]

I get what you mean. I'm all for feminism and racial/sexual equality. But I do get tired of nearly every modern movie, book and TV show over accentuating that girls are just as strong as boys and minorities are just as good as white people etc. It's not that I disagree. I vehemently agree actually. it's just that it doesn't seem genuine. It's more like content creators realize this is a massive cultural trend (which is great btw) and are making sure to overstate it in every story they produce to capitalize on it. (Same reason almost everything is a remake these days. Guaranteed audience). It just seems like blatant pandering to me. BUT also, honestly I also feel naturally disgusted when the extreme opposite of feminism is used so prevalently in almost all of these older stories. Same thing with racist, and homophobic sentiments so often found in older fiction. It doesn't always ruin the story for me because I go into it knowing it's there and try my best to overlook it. But it's still gross and I feel the stories would be much more enjoyable without that stuff. So many authors who's stories I love (Howard, Leinster, Lovecraft etc) often display some real icky racism and sexism in works that are otherwise genius IMO. I'm honestly glad that's changing nowadays even if it often swings way too far the other direction for my tastes. That's to be expected though. Women and minorities and LGT etc people have been grossly oppressed for so long and they have a legitimate gripe. I just look forward to a time where it's just taken for granted that we are all equal so it doesn't need to be stated every 3 minutes in every story. .......(soap box dismount! ....judges???)

[@andrewcox6980]

@@otterrivers3765 the Romans agreed with you. True equality can never be reached when it must be enforced. Just gotta wait for reality to catch up with expectations

[@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347]

Well said. Sans fem ss es muy bien.

[@philbabb6460]

@@otterrivers3765 10 out of 10

[@standziobek7108]

Nice

[@tedgunderson67]

I live there

[@ericdunbar6230]

When you go to find the ultimate technology how will people react to it? Did it really exist? Will it destroy humanity? A bit of a Cold War bent on this one. But it makes you think and that's always a good thing. While you smoking those totally safe futuristic cigarettes.

[@fredkelly6953]

The narrator sounds just like all those kung fu movies with english voice -overs.

[@jayturner3397]

Mark Nelson I think, one of my favourite narrators

[@davidmicalizio824]

❤

[@huesbinfartiin4104]

4:20

[@walterfoster7352]

30x3

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3x53

[@walterfoster7352]

10x08

[@jekin416]

5 minutes in and all i can hear is the narrator's all too frquently loud intakes of breayh..eww